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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. TiDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
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Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperGeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2007201420132016
Current release2.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.12.7.6, April 20248.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetJavaGoGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accountsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GeoSpockGridGainHeroicInfluxDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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